Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION xiii
5. INTRODUCTION xv
6. PART I: The Making of a Romantic Character (1911–1947)
7. 1.“I Have Never in My Life Felt I Belonged in the Place Where I Lived” 3
8. 2.“Stylistically, I’m Best at Irony” 16
9. 3. “I Wanted to Study Something That Couldn’t Be Used” 29
10. 4.“I Have the Feeling That Everything Around Me Is Enveloped in a Mist” 39
11. 5.“When I Look at Other Scientists . . .None of Them Have Wasted as Many Years as I Have” 52
12. 6.“Now I Think Nobody Can Keep Me from Becoming a Doctor” 63
13. 7.“To Be Able to Let Nature Reflect in the Depths ofMy Own Soul” 75
14. 8. “I Am Branded with Infidelity, and See That Open-Eyed” 88
15. 9.“Letters Are a Spiritual Spiderweb in Which You Snare the Dreaming Soul of Woman” 96
16. Part II: The Making of the Selection Theory (1947–1954)
17. 10.“The Happiness of Feeling Superior to a Lot of People” 111
18. 11. “I Think the Work Has Principal Application to Immunology” 124
19. 12.“Antibody This,Antibody That, They Weren’t Really Much Interested” 133
20. 13.“These People Don’t Know What They’re Doing” 144
21. 14. “I Suppose I Should Do Something,Maybe an Experiment or Something” 156
22. Parabasis. The Selection Theory as a Personal Confession 173
23. Part III: A Man,His Theory, and His Network (1954–1994)
24. 15.“My Hopes and Failures Are Within Myself” 193
25. 16.“This Theory Hadn’t Made Much of a Stir, So Now,What Was I to Do?” 209
26. 17. “I’d Better Make Sure I Learn a Little about Immunology” 217
27. 18. “Finally,My Precious, I Have to Be Brilliant and Make Antibodies” 233
28. 19.“Like a Log Coming Slowly to the Surface of a Lake” 249
29. 20. “I Still Think That My Original Natural Selection Theory Was Better” 267
30. 21. “Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject” 278
31. Epilogue 292
32. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES 297
33. NOTES 299
34. UNPUBLISHED SOURCES 329
35. BIBLIOGRAPHY 331
36. INDEX 351